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-v. ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, MONDAY. JANUARY 1. MM DR.AVYNEK00P MURDER TRIAL DUETHURSDAY Defense to Ask Delay In Baffling Chicago Slaying Mystery Doctor Wynekoop to Go on Trial This Thursday STERILIZATION AWAITING 400,000 BY REICH RULE Medical Authorities Ordered to List All Defectives Kidnaped, He Says Five ABC Inspectors Fired by Mulrooney New York, Dee. 31 Five inspectors of the State Alc.iholic Beverage Control Board were discharged today by Chairman Edward P.

Mulrooney, who aald a Negro filing clerk had Implicated them In charges that fees were being demanded for the delivery of approved licenses. Mulrooney announced that the clerk, SMr St. John, had admitted abati acting licenses from envelopes and delivering them personally or through agents to licensees. A gratuity of from 2 to 115 waa charged hn said. Tha five inspectors denied they ever had taken money for the delivery service.

St. John waa retained on the staff pending further investigation. GobvBU I ew Fare to Ivetrwtiere U. S. and Canada.

Coait to tout. BUFFALO 12 TORONTO HS FUUEBOSTUMINAI SSOADW SOUTH AVI. ft f-- A I JANUARY Chicago, Dm, 81(Unlted News) -The Wynkoop case, th murder mystery In recent American criminal artnele, tnnieht Beared the trial stage with volution apparently still as dlatnnt a tha nlffht Rheta "Wynekoop, heau--tiful young violinist, wax found lain. Dr. Alice Llnday Wynekoop, pround and distinguished mother-in-law of Rheta, faeea trial next Thursday on an Indictment charging her with the murder of her on'i wife.

It la expected the trial wjll ha continued week or 10 days. Tha moat Intense police Investigation In Chicago history hai failed i John Van Pelt (above), 69yer-old witness in the Wynekoop murder mystery at Chicago, appeared at i police station after being missing for ten days and reported thst ha had been kidnaped. Police discredited the story of the odd-Jobs rhan, and sent him home. (Associated Press Photo) thua far to establish with certain CLEARANCE SALE COATS AND SKIRTS Vs to y2 REDUCTIONS All coats tailored from Lang's fine woolens and furs. Coats trimmed with Koliniky, Fitch, Beaver, Black, Brown, and Grey Persians, Krimmer, all kinds of Foseg and many etker furs.

Creat vslues of better grade costs at unuiually low prices. Be sure and see them before buying, if you are looking for a better coat. If we do not have your size in stock, we will make to your measure, within 24 houri, without any extra charge. Berlin, Dec 31 -') Sums mental and physical hereditary defectives In German asylums and priscons or still at larfce come under the sterilization law with the new year. This sweeping law promulgated by the Nazi government Is the most sensational of 26 measures that go into effect tomorrow.

Under threat of 130 (approximately $.15.50) fine, medical authorities In prisons and public, and private hospitals, nurses, mid wives and welfare workers have been racking their brains to hand In as complete lists asc posxlble of all hereditary Incurables In their care the 1,7000 new eugenic court with power to decree sterilization can beKin work at once. A circular letter of Instruction-sent by the federal minister of Justice to alt state administrators of justice makes it mandatory upon Judges and others who cotne In contact with criminals who seem hereditarily endowed with a penchant for committing crimes to report these canes forthwith to thoje In charge of the eugenic courts. New Year's Day being a holiday, the courts will begin to function Jan. 2. as the Koelnische Zeltung puts It, "to prevent such characteristics as are only burden to the nation as a whole from being Inch rlted from one generation to another." Disapproval of the Roman CHth-olio clergy, reflected in a bitter referene to the law by Pope Plus In his recent masenge to the world, has been allayed following representations to the German government by Cardinal Bertram.

Tha government In reply promised not to compel any Catholle Judge to serve on a eugenic court, nor to order the surrender of a criminal to such a court and not to compel any I at Chicago January 4 charged with tha Frail and 62 years old. Dr. Alice) Wynekoop will go on tria operating table slaying of her daughter-in-law, Rheta Gardner Wynekoop. The part the confession (shown below) which she signed following the tragedy will play In tha case Is tha big question at tha opening of tha trial nears. Judge Joseph David (left) will preside, while the case will be prosecuted by Thomas J.

Courtney (right), ttatt'a attornsy of Cook county. (Associated Press Photos) With All Bills Paid, State Fair Has $15,491 Ryracm, Dec. SI 'A') The New York State Fair office cloned its books for the year today with a surplus of $15491 77, which was transferred to th.i permanent conduction fund. J. Dan Ackerman, fair director, announced that all bills Incurred In 1933 have been paid, as well as $17,000 in unpaid bills carried over from 1932.

The addition to the construction fund brought Its total to $35,000, 1 which may be used to construct a woman's building at the fair grounds, 'f Governor Lehman con-: sents to the inclusion of the re- malnder needed, from $35,000 to In the state budget, Acker-1 man said. Funeral of Slain Archbishop Today Services to Be Conducted At St. John Cathedral until the funeral Monday In the Cathedral of St. Johr. the Divine.

Twenty-five police were detailed to the church as several thousand persons passed the bier. The Arrhbhhop was killed a week ago as he begun Sunday services. Police attributed the slaying to members of a society seeking Every coat purchastd durkif this salt will mothproofed by SPRADLIN INSURED Mothproofing Service FREE OF CHARGE with a five yaar Insurance againtt moth damaft Jiut complfl- CO line JO TAILORED SKIRTS NEGRO GROUP RAPS OFFICIAL LYNCHING LINK Collusion of Officers Scored as Violence By Mobs Increases Tailored Skirt. ut far nkntnijr aid ommI-xt porta, ni xta hujivy n.i!rn. Value ftgrn up.

Signal at up New York. Dec. 31 The body of Archbishop Leon Tourlan, slain head of the Armenian National Apostolic Church It) the Amerlcaa was removed today to St. Gregory the Illuminator Church, where It will lie In state LANG'S 77 Clinton Ave. N.

R. K. O. Bldg. to restoie the Armenian llcpiihli? Bishop Josvep Garavedlan, minister of the church in which the prelate wns stabbed to death, fninted during the morning serv-; lea today at St.

Gregory the lllu- nlnafor Church. Catholic Thysiclan to perform the sterilization operation. ty tha ilmple facta of how the young girl met her death. I'rohe Fniitlrae In gloomy atmosphere tug-(restive of a detective mystery novel, police have dcllved unreea-mgty but tha only apparent result has been the accumulation of a mats of contradictory evidence. Rheta.

whoee uphappy marriage with Earle Wynekoop waa the cloecly guared nee ret of a family prominent In medical elreles. died Nov. 21, auppoaedly In the aomhre Wjmekoop mansion In West Monroe Street. Storlei of the discovery of the body conflict. Police called to the home at 10 o'clock that night by tha undertaker were in farmed by Doctor Wynekoop that ahe had coma upon the body accidentally tn her haeement operating room.

On tha table, covered with a iheet, and almost it ripped of clothing, lay Rheta. A bullet had punctured bar back and chloroform appeared to have been applied to her mouth. Confession Repudiated Three dava later in a atatement hailed by atate'i attorney's offlcera as a "confession," Doctor Wynekoop repudiated thla atory. She aid, Rheta died of an accidental overdone of chloroform and that tha bullet had been fired to Indicate another manner of death. Thla atatement which contained eaveral conflict! "of known facta later waa renudiated by Doctor Wynekoop and then branded as an Unlikely atory by Investigators.

Kavertheleaa. Doctor Wynekoop waa Indicted by a grand Jury. A relentless questioning of the hut-band, Earle, Inclosed numerous extramarital affairs with young women employed aa waa he at the world'a fair. His alibi proved alr-tlght des-aplte hia efforts to "confess" to the murder. Allhl Standi Announcement waa made today that Frank J.

Tyrrell, noted criminal lawyer, would be chief de. fense counsel, assisted by W. W. Smith, a young trial attorney. They aid they would ask a few week's continuance of Doctor Wynekoop'i case when called for trial, Thursday.

Doctor Wynekoop is resting In the county Jail where ahe baa been held alnca indictment. Her time waa spent largely In reading the bible. Physicians said her physical condition was much Improved. sisterIFed executor of Januipy Si Telephone Stone 2300 fmiPof'tm-MoniS EFTS Superb Quality! Extraordinary Savings! New York, Dec. 31 Walter White, secretary of the Niuional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said today that he considered "the collusion" of law officera and mobs In lynchings during 1933 "an ominoua tendency likely to grow threatening." The society issued statistics on 28 known lynchings during 1933 which, White said, waa a "2Qi) per cent rise In mob murder fron the total of 10 for 1932." Collusion Alleged In condemning the alleged collusion of law officers and mobs, the association called particular attention to what It said were the circumstances surrounding lynchinRs at Tuscaloosa.

at Clinton, S. at Ninety Six, S. at Princess Anne, and at San Jose, Calif. "The double lynching at Sar Jose of Thomas H. Thurmond and John Holmes, both white men, on Nov.

26." White said, "was unquestionably made possible by the atudied failure of Gov. Jamra II. Rolph to send the National Guard as requested by the sheriff. "In thla Instance and for the first time In recent history the governor of an American atate actually condoned a lynching and promised to pardon any lynchera convicted of the crime." Statistics for Year The association's statistic on lynching by atatea for tha year were Alabama, five; Georgia and Louisiana, four; South Carolina and Tennessee, three; California and Mississippi, two; Florida, Maryland, Missouri. North Carolina and Texaa one.

Other atatlstlra showed; Four of the mob victims were white, 21 were Negroes. Alleged ofTenses for which victims were lynched: Murder, attack on White woman, attempted attack on White w. men, Insulting White woman. assault on White man, wounding White man, quarrel with White man, planning suit against i i Fruit-of-the-Loom PILLOW CASES 7 34' Size 81" 99' Size 72 108" Regularly $1.59 Afefsaty Jr rack Size 42-in. 36-in.

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AlmonWhitneyGranted Letters on Property Of His Father i White man. killing In search or another, ateallng, offense un known, 4. FARMER KIU.F.H Cortland. Dec. 31 -Struck by an automobile operated by Taul Burdlck of McOraw aa he stepped oul of hla own machine, Samuel jWebb, 40, Cortlandvllla farmer was (fatally Injured near hera today.

Canandalgua, Dee. 31 (Special XMspatch) Anna Hayes, a resident erf Geneva who died at Rochester a Nov. 14. left a will In which she names a slater, Elizabeth Balr of Geneva, aa executor of her $10,000 eaUte. Under terms of the will admitted to probata here, $100 got to Holy Sepulrher Cemetery of Rochester, and $12S each to the alster and a brother, Thomas Fitzgerald of Geneva.

The brother la also bequeathed the Income from $600 and the residue pass to the later. Letters of administration were Issued In Surrogate's Court to Almon C. Whitney of Shnrts-vtlla on tha $1,900 estate of his father. Cheney P. Whitney, a re.il-dent of Phelps who died In Canen-daJirua Dec.

22. Besides the son. heirs are another son and two daughter, John C. Whltne of Btanlay, Mary Whitney of New Tork City and Margaret Chapman of Clifton Springs. Both of his legs were cnisnea.

The meeting of three powerful kings 833 years ago at Kungely. on tha west coast of Sweden, will-be commemorated by a granite monument In front of the ancient fortress of Boh us. jour quality-wise grandmothers chne Fruit-of- pri" rri" mm, I 'I H. sheets and cases. Today they are finer 63'VT $1.39.

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Fuller of Linden, daughters. The estate la to be divided Inti six equal shares. One share la given to each of tha children and one share is to be equally divided among four grandchildren. The will of Lyman C. Broughtoo who died In Castile Nov.

19, leaves an aetata listed as worth $2,000 In personal property to Mra. Grace V. Broughton, hia widow. Letters of administration have been lesued to George A. Wellman, on tha estate of his wife, Mrs.

Mary A. Wellman, who died In Warsaw last Feb. 2. Tha estate la listed as worth $3,200 In personal property. Letters have been granted to Martha E.

Martin, widow, on the estate of John Martin, of Cov-; Ington. Tha estate Is valued si In personal property, $4,000 in real estate and In accrued i taU. Surrogate Conable Actt on Warsaw, Dae. II 'Special Dispatch) Estates tofalinjr. have received the attentloa of Surrogate Barber B.

Conable. The wll lof Fred J. Morgan, who died In Manchester, Ontario County, on Nov. 23. bequeaths an estate listed aa worth upwards of $3,000 In real estate and $5,000 and upwards In personal property, to his widow, Mary E.

Morgan of Attica. Tha will of F.ria. Oihson, who dlad In Warsaw Dec 12, bequeaths ait 1at valued at $7,000 real and personal property to Fred Oihson of Berman, a on, and Eve Oil turn of Bliss, Loretla T. Btoodley of Sackett's Harbor, L'l (tfnda C. Bryant of Warsaw anJ.

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